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The Full History of France: One Country, Many Revolutions

Published Oct 28, 2026 · 38 min

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In September 1940, in a France just defeated, four teenagers squeezed down a hole near Montignac and found walls painted around twenty thousand years ago: Lascaux. This is the full history of France: a Roman province, a Frankish kingdom, an absolute monarchy, a revolution, an empire and five republics. How does a country reinvent itself so many times and still stay itself?

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 Channel opening
2. 00:10 The painted cave
3. 01:23 Gaul against Rome
4. 04:01 The Franks
5. 06:19 The kingdom of Paris
6. 08:34 Faith and the knife
7. 11:11 The Sun King and the Enlightenment
8. 14:25 1789
9. 18:00 The emperor
10. 20:53 Revolution, again
11. 23:52 Making the French
12. 26:39 Verdun
13. 28:50 The dark years
14. 31:46 The end of empire
15. 35:10 The copy

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